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Loving Hands
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Loving Hands meets every Tuesday at 9:00 AM. They need donations of yarn and fabric for various projects. Some of these include Hope Resource Center, Samaritan Inn, and the Medical Center of McKinney. Loving Hands makes crocheted hats for babies and premies (baby colors), receiving blankets (cotton and terrycloth), and youth/adult winter hats/scarves any colors). For more information contact Dorothy Dunham or Lynette Niccum.
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I have not invited President Obama to speak to our congregation. Nor have I invited Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or Rick Perry. It is not because I prefer one political party over another or even one candidate over another. It is because I am committed to the separation of church and state. Historically, Southern Baptists have been staunchly committed to church-state separation, but that began to change in the 1970s & 80's. Southern Baptist Convention meetings became sites for building support for presidential candidates like Pat Robertson. When Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter were campaigning against each other, Ford received an invitation to speak to the SBC annual meeting but Carter did not.
Recently a group of evangelical leaders met in Texas to try and unify support for a Republican presidential candidate. Many Southern Baptists were there to vote for their candidate. Shame on those ministers who came home to tell their congregations how to vote.
My position (and the position of our church) is stated in the 1963 Baptist Faith and Message, our church’s adopted statement of faith. In the article on Religious Liberty, it states, “Church and state should be separate. The gospel of Christ contemplates spiritual means alone for the pursuit of its ends. A free church in a free state is the Christian ideal.”
ABC News refers to the 2012 political races as “Your Voice, Your Vote.” Christians have a voice. Support your candidate. Please vote your conscience. But keep politics out of Sunday school and the pulpit. This has always been the Baptist way. As Hershel Hobbs wrote, “If eternal vigilance is the price of freedom, it is especially true of religious liberty.” Let’s uphold church-state separation.
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| CNBC Prayer Ministry |
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REMINDER
Your CNBC Prayer Ministry continues to meet the first Tuesday of each month in the Church Library at 10:00 AM. Your prayers are needed.
or by calling 469-742-0271. Also, during office hours, prayer requests are received by calling our Church's secretary, Pam, at 972-542-0261.
“Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven; where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:20-21.
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| Community Food Pantry |
New Bible Study Begins |
Community North Baptist gives canned milk every month joining with other area churches who  give other grocery items to help the hungry. During January, CNBC gave 61 cans of milk.
Everyone is asked to bring a donation of canned milk to the church office during the last week of each month.
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The pastor will start a book study of “And  the Angels were Silent” (the final week of Jesus’ life) by Max Lucado on Sunday evenings beginning Feb. 19. Get a copy and read chapters 1-4 for Feb. 19.
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| Deacons of the Week |
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05 - Don Hild
12 - Chris Hill
19 - Mike Jennings
26 - Joe Leeper
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04 - Helen Moore-Montgomery
11 - Gordon O'Neal
18 - Jim Peden
25 - Henry Robinson
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